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plement of eggs by the first week in May. If the first nest is des- 

 troyed a second nest is built and eggs are laid towards the end of 

 May; I have frequently met with the nests; they are common 

 about Lansdowne, Ont., on Wolfe Island and in the vicinity of 

 Kingston; one nest I found built in a thorn bush about three feet 

 from the ground, was completed on 29th April; on the 4th May it 

 contained five eggs, speckled and zoned and smaller than the 

 eggs of L. borealis. The old birds were very tame and did not 

 behave in the same way as those of the other species, which latter 

 kept far off and perched high up in the trees; there were no large 

 trees near this nest May 6th, a nest in a similar location contain- 

 ing four fresh eggs ; birds were very tame, allowing of my ap- 

 proach within a few feet; April 3rd, 1890, I saw a pair of mig- 

 rant shrikes, and on the 28th found the nest in a thorn bush, 

 containing seven eggs; on the 7th May found another nest with 

 five eggs, incubated, built so low in the thorn, bush that I could 

 look into it when standing on the ground. April i8th, 1892, I 

 found a migrant shrike's nest in a thorn bush in a pasture 

 field, which on the 29th contained six eggs; May 2nd, 1898, found 

 a migrant shrike's nest in a thorn bush with six fresh eggs ; 

 April 6th, 1899, I saw a pair of migrant shrikes, and their 

 nest on the 29th April with six eggs, built as usual in a thorn tree 

 in a pasture field and no great height from the ground ; I could 

 refer to perhaps twenty other instances of this bird breeding as 

 above in thorn bushes in pasture fields the last week of April or 

 firs't week in May. {Rev. C.J. Young?) This bird begins its nest 

 around Ottawa in April and lays five, six or seven eggs; this 

 nest is built in thorn trees or bushes from four to ten feet high, 

 and is composed of branches, rootlets and strings, with woolly 

 lining united to feathers and hairs. (Garneaze.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three specimens; one taken at Scotch Lake, N.B.byMr. W.H. 

 Moore, in 1902; two at Ottawa, April' 21st, 1902, by Mr. E. F. G. 

 White. 



One set of seven eggs taken at Port Hope, Ont., by Mr. W. H. 

 Meeking. Nest in a thorn bush t,^ feet from the ground, com- 

 posed of rootlets, grass and hairs. 



